The Social Leaders plugin replaces the built-in reputation system for Jive SBS with one that creates additional point categories and weights recent contributions higher than older contributions.

Why do I care?

In a nutshell, the intent of this plugin is to incentivize the community to participate more actively in the creation of quality content by providing an intrinsic reward system that encourages new and old users alike.

In the reputation system that ships with Jive, points are accumulated over time and never decrease. For a community like Jivespace where some users have in excess of 10K points, it can be a rather daunting task to try to break into the leaderboard. As a new user, I may come into the community and create a lot of valuable content that drives additional community participation, but that contribution would likely leave me a long ways off from the top of the list, even if I was the only one actively contributing content.

With the Social Leaders reputation system, newer contributions are weighted more heavily than older contributions, so new users can quickly ascend the ranks (and should be more motivated to do so). Furthermore, the plugin seeks to encourage the creation of better content by providing additional rewards for users who create content that drives participation by other community members.

What do you get points for?

Create a message

Someone replies to a message you created

Create a document

Add a document revision

Create a blog post

Create a video

Rate content

Receive a rating

Add a comment

Someone replies to a comment you've left

Associate a tag with your content

Add an external bookmark

Add an internal bookmark

Someone bookmarks content that you created

Complete a task

What's on the feature roadmap?

Restore previous point categories and values when plugin is uninstalled

Backup points rewarded for new point categories when plugin is removed so they can be re-added if the plugin is reinstalled at a later point

Update historical points to reflect the new point values

Provide an admin UI for tuning behavior

Need UI to help users understand how the scoring system works

Installation instructions

Install the plugin through the admin console under System > Plugins > Add Plugin

Restart your SBS instance to complete the install

(Optional) Run the following SQL statement to update the historical points in your system: